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Old 12-26-2010, 10:06 AM   #1
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Spliting 15000 images in sub-folders?


Hello! =]

I have a folder with 15000+ images! Any ideas of how to (using bash) mv the files to sub-folders a/ b/ c/ d/ e/ f/ g/ h/ i/ j/ ?

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Old 12-26-2010, 10:09 AM   #2
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How do you plan on deciding which files go into which directory?
 
Old 12-26-2010, 10:10 AM   #3
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doesnt make difference for me! =]
 
Old 12-26-2010, 10:56 AM   #4
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Homework?
 
Old 12-26-2010, 11:36 AM   #5
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The target directories are all letters of the alphabet. You could take the first letter of each file name and assign it to the corresponding directory.

However this would only work well if the file names' first letters were evenly distributed over the alphabet. In other words if all of the file names were IMGxxxx.jpg then taking the first letter of the file name as the target directory would put all of the files in the "i" directory. That would not be any better than leaving them where they are.

In a case like that you would want to use a characteristic that would split up the files more evenly. Using the creation date would be nice if it were available, but it isn't. Using the last modification date might be a good choice if the images were created over a long period of time and only a few would match any particular date. Of course that could lead to the other problem of having only one picture per target directory and that is no better than leaving them all in one directory. It might even be worse because they would be tedious to access in a file viewer.

Since we don't know anything about the files then you will have to determine some sorting criteria that will lead to a useful result.

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Old 12-26-2010, 03:28 PM   #6
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Homework?
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I was thinking the same thing.
 
Old 12-27-2010, 08:59 AM   #7
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I was thinking the same thing.
So what if it is? We can help someone analyze the problem. We can even help them to develop a script. The only thing that I don't respect is handing a developed solution to the person with no effort on their part. There is no evidence that the OP wants that.

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